Anna Karenina - Part 6 - Page 30/121

After they had driven over two miles from home, Veslovsky all at

once felt for a cigar and his pocketbook, and did not know

whether he had lost them or left them on the table. In the

pocketbook there were thirty-seven pounds, and so the matter

could not be left in uncertainty.

"Do you know what, Levin, I'll gallop home on that left

trace-horse. That will be splendid. Eh?" he said, preparing to

get out.

"No, why should you?" answered Levin, calculating that Vassenka

could hardly weigh less than seventeen stone. "I'll send the

coachman."

The coachman rode back on the trace-horse, and Levin himself

drove the remaining pair.